With the continuous tumbling of the naira, the rapid appreciation of the US dollar, the British pound and the Euro, as well as soaring inflation rate, Nigerian students and workers who desire to study, live and work overseas this year, may be forced to abandon those aspirations. Also terribly hit are ailing Nigerians who travelled […]
•Canada Visa The Canadian Government is set to impose a national cap to reduce the intake of international students into the country. According to the country’s immigration minister, Marc Miller, during an interview yesterday with CTV’s Question Period, the Canadian government will need to have a meeting with provincial governments “to make su...
The Orientation programme for the newly admitted students of the School of Continuing Education and Professional Studies (SCEPS), University of Uyo (UniUyo), has been scheduled for Monday, January 22, 2024. This was made known this morning in a chat with the Director of SCEPS, Prof Lawrence Etim. Etim informed The Frontier that the event will ...
•Protesting students Academic activities were grounded today at the Federal University of Technology, Akure, following students’ protests against a hike in the institution’s tuition fees. The students, who converged at the two gates leading to the school as early as 7 a.m., blocked the main gates of the school and barricaded the ever-busy Akur...
•Oyo State Governor Seyi Makinde Oyo State Government has directed all the principals and class teachers in public schools to prepare e-assessment report sheets for all students in the state. The directive was contained in a memo dated January 12, and addressed to all Tutors-Generals by the Permanent Secretary, Post Primary Schools Teaching Se...
Two students of Akwa Ibom State Polytechnic, Ikot Osurua, have been crushed to death. It was gathered that the incident happened yesterday, few metres away from the school’s premises, near Ikot Inyang village junction, along Aba Road in Ikot Ekpene Local Government Area. It was learnt that the truck driver lost control of the vehicle […...
The Beninois and Togolese universities which were temporarily derecognised last week by the Federal Government, are at risk of losing about N7.5billion which they make annually from their Nigerian students, according to projections. The Federal Ministry of Education on Tuesday suspended the evaluation and accreditation of degree certificates f...
•Zulum The Borno State Government has approved the immediate release of over N55.9 million for payment of registration fees of 153 medical students in a bid to resuscitate the health sector which is the worst hit by the insurgent crisis. The Executive Secretary of the Borno State Scholarship Board, Malam Bala Isa, disclosed this while [&hellip...
•NANS president, Benin Republic, Ugochukwu Favour The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), Benin Republic, has called for leniency over the ban on validation of degree certificates from the country and Togo, saying 15,000 Nigerian students are in Benin. A reporter detailed how he bagged a degree in under two months from a universi...
•Japa The Home Office of the United Kingdom on Monday announced that it had commenced the implementation of its policy banning Nigerian students and other overseas students from bringing in dependants via the study visa route. In a post on X (formerly Twitter), the Home Office reiterated that only those on postgraduate research or government-s...
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